The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-05-30
KATE CHASE'S SON.
The Beautiful Matron's Affectionate Meeting
with Her Injudicious Boy.

The Beautiful MatrOn's AHectfOn nate Meeting
with Her IDjndicious Boy.
Brooklyn Eagle.
The other day a wel-dressed. handsome wom-
an with the unmstakable air of a grande dame
about her. appeared in the back room OF New
York Office aud after q few MOI nents n boy came
in from the mechanical department. with which
the office is connected. He wa good-looking.
staiwart youth, but grimed with his work. his
hands black and lard. his red flannel shirt
sleeves rolled up to the elbow and leather apron
tied about his waist They, the woman and the
boy, were evidently glad to. see one another; she
called him willie" and throwing her arms
about his neck. kissed hirA half a dozen times,
after which she sat for al hour holding his hand
and talking to him in a bw tone. Il was time
for him to 60 back to } lis work then, and SO
they kissed again and Sc parated. The clerks in
the front office cf terested in the little
scene and one of them reI marked: II don t doubt
if knew the real STORY of these two, 1t would
be O romance more straI ge than any in q novel"
They the grand son and the daughter
of Chief-justice Salmon Z. Chase Kate Chase
was probably during 'aie civil war the most III
f1ueutial woman in his country. Mrs Lincoln
being such impo IS IDLE sort of person all the
social side of poll sits centered at the house OF
her father. One III us t have lived in Washington
TO realize what -5re found influence society ex-
ercises upon politics. and 1t is said there that the
handsome brillia nj, ambitious girl who ruled
The Chase salon AL more to do with the making
and unmaking Of generals on the Potomac than
people now dream. Later on, too, under the
Grant administr a'.ion, when she was the wife OF
the millionaire Governor and the friend OF the
Senator from New York, she welded more power
than any womi lr in the country. Now she lives
in Washington in, what is to her. poverty, with
out influence CIR place in the social world she
once ruled, md surrounded only with shadow
of all her part splendor. She devotes her time
TO raising ro ,ef and superintending ner daughter
Ethers edu cation, who inherits none OF her
beauty, lFt much of her intellect
great .cause of distress to her has
been her Din Willie. When she was divorced
from her h 10 sband the courts awarded the BOY TO
his father, and, that time a lad or only ten or
twelve. he. took sides against her. He was al
lowed to run wild about Naragansett-was
solitary, grave boy until his father persuaded
him into marriage with his second wlfes sister
1t Il ct long after that that the boy awoket 10
a sense of what ne had done, and he instantly
fed ar realiug at the same time to his mother,
who W a. abroad She forgave at once the posi-
ton h, had taken as a child. and returned from
EuroT ., to see what she could do for him She
was o stratcned in means to support him. ana
he rked for awhile as fireman Tor an engine
Latt Z rly, friends have secured him place
whe his natural turn for mechanics Is OF use
to J i'm and he is doing well, though the com
rae as who work alongside OF him have no sus-
PR d OH of his identity. His mother comes over
fir ,m Washington to see him occasionally, ana IL
is under her advice he is now suing Tor divorce
{ r)m the woman he was entrapped into wedding.